Outside the Beltway

A novel but flawed legal argument.

Several stories, not enough time for full write-ups.

Another R/D cleavage?

It’s not getting any better, folks.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

Another 6-3 decision along ideological lines.

Things that make you go Hmmm.

A bizarre development looks to upend it less than 24 hours after it was announced.

Another case of word choice overriding intent.

A typical case of American blind justice.

A bipartisan compromise appears unlikely.

Could this be the straw that broke the camel’s back?

The politics of science comes full circle.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

New screening procedures follow a Department-wide stand-down.

Key posts across the government remain unfilled.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to improve the system.

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

Quite a number of Democratic Congressmen are thinking about seeking a new job.

A little-known rule might allow a majority to pass one more bill.

Nonhierarchical parties strike again.

There are legitimate ethical and liberty questions but they’re outweighed by the benefits.

The case of Katie Porter’s committee assignments.

The ongoing codependency that is the Trump-GOP relationship.

It’s easy if you try.

Underplaying the value of vaccination is counterproductive.

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.

What’s taking him so long?

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.

Early analysis merely confirms analysts’ priors.

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

What we have here is failure to communicate.

Large chunks of a hackish report were lifted from previous works of Commission members.

Will there be in-fighting? Yes. A break-up? No.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

Biden nominees Janet Yellen, Tony Blinken, and Avril Haines are under scrutiny for their financial disclosures.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

His tantrum stopped checks over the weekend but Congress called his bluff.

The junior Senator from Kentucky is drawing a lot of attention to himself on “fraud.”

Meanwhile, a report states that a Trump admin official pushed infections to promote herd immunity.

Too little, too late.

Not another general.

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

The right to worship trumps the public’s health.